<<Well to the whole of Albion a hearty congratulations for the
victory of the Labour party and let the ghosts of the dead poets and
revolutionaries of Ireland, Wales, Britain and Scotland land rise up and
smash the state to pieces, and let the pieces recompose into a million
worded poem to embrace the apocalyptic renewal of the Western world damned
for the moment on its ten year course to the right.>>
i am sorry but that is not party policy
<<But I share Fiona's sense of personal liberation. But why? >>
i cannot imagine - the only thing that's actually changed for me is that i
now more per month to the halifax building society and that would have
happened anyway
<<is nobody made nervous by the domination of electioneering over even a
good result (over election results hereafter?) So maybe that's part and
parcel, and has always been, to some extent; still, the sway of a
supersaatchi slogan campaign is 100% buyable, isn't it? I'm glad too,
just tempered by fear of a tractable (and negative) young vote - it may
not always be that the proper team has the greater buying power, but it
seems likely that the younger vote will always be available to this kind
of buying, which is now so -everyday-. Maybe an unfair worry..? >>
well founded i would say - while those on this list and in other groupings
may always have had a clear enough view of these things, lets not forget
that the British People, that interesting construct, voted for the tories
last time and the time before, bought - it's hardly workers of the world
unite NOW but more like some kind of python sketch where someone with a
far away look in their eyes wakes up the fifth time they are hit on the
head
AND before we - i venture to use the first person plural - get too excited
at the decimation of the tory vote lets look at the voting figures - it
isnt that much of a shift really - first past the post makes it look
bigger than it is - and it may be the tory voters wot didnt vot wot really
won it
my particular excitement was to see my mp ousted as a result of my tactical
switch to libdem - nigel foreman - 3 times i lobbied him when in the NUT
and he refused to come out - slime - and then olga maitland in the
neighbouring constituency - a crime against humanity - thought of cris
cheek when portillo went - i am surprised that he - cris - wasnt killed by
the thought police for living in that area - i found martin bell's garden
of gethsemane expressions as he approached the scaffold to make his speech
quite moving - if they were all as apprehensive we might get a less
destructive government
cris, can we not avoid phrases such as _feel good factor_ ta
Lawrence
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